James Finnerty

Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services

About

Jim Finnerty is a Principal Engineer for Amazon Web Services, and a veteran of the database industry with over 25 years of experience in database kernel development. Currently Jim is a member of the 'Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility' team.

James Finnerty has presented the following presentations

    James Finnerty Deep Dive on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Performance Tuning at Postgres Conference

    presented by James Finnerty

    Amazon Aurora offers several options for monitoring and optimizing PostgreSQL database performance. These include Enhanced Monitoring and Performance Insights, an easy-to-use tool for assessing the load on your database and identifying slow-performing queries. With this information, you can use Query Plan Management to improve your database response. In this session, learn how to tune the perfo...

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    Mon 18 2019 AWS Migration Day
    James Finnerty Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility at PGConf Local: Austin [PgConf.US]
    Architecture Overview and Performance

    presented by James Finnerty

    Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility was recently released, and is now in production. Learn about how Amazon Aurora re-imagined the traditional database architecture for the AWS cloud, providing a managed database service that improves durability, availability, performance, variability, and recovery time. This presentation will cover some of the architectural details underlying the Ama...

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    Tue 5 2017 Cloud & Data
    James Finnerty Aurora PostgreSQL Tutorial and Extended Deep Dive at PostgresConf US 2018
    Extended deep-dive with hands-on lab

    presented by James Finnerty

    In this training session we will be combining an extended deep dive on the Aurora architecture along with a hands on lab using Aurora PostgreSQL. As part of the deep dive we will cover the unique features and changes that combine to produce improved scalability, availability and durability. In addition, you will get hands on experience creating an Aurora PostgreSQL cluster, configuring that clu...

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    Mon 16 2018 Cloud